Video: Ultima 4 on iOS (natively!)
In which a long-standing challenge is responded to: What you are seeing, Dragons and Dragonettes, is actually an offshoot of the xu4 project, which implements the underlying game model from Ultima 4 in iOS....
Tagged: iPhone
Crap…iDOS got pulled from the App Store, again
Once again, the issue is that the program can run custom executables within itself. As the developer points out in this post, to comply with Apple’s App Store policy, he would effectively have to...
iDOS 2.0.1 available on the iTunes App Store
Some of you may recall the brief, shining moment of glory that the original iDOS iPhone app had: it appeared on the iTunes App Store one morning back in October, and was quickly yanked...
Gamers abandoning gaming handhelds
Apropos of the discussion taking place in the comments section of this article comes this timely report via Slashdot: “IndustryGamers reports on new research from Interpret, which shows that more and more people are...
Infinity Blade brings ridiculously gorgeous 3D gaming to the iPhone
Seriously: how? I mean, granted, as mobile devices go, the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 are pretty powerful units. But this powerful? It just doesn’t seem possible…but there it is. The geniuses at Epic...
iDOS: Official DOSpad app for iOS devices! (update: not no more)
I don’t know how long this one is going to last, so get it while it’s hot! Somehow, someone got a version of DOSpad approved by Apple and released for $0.99 on the iOS...
Akalabeth for iPhone updated
Granted, I didn’t need to make and adjustments to the project entry, since the download link there is just a link to the relevant entry at the Apple App Store. Still, for what it’s...
14,000 players: Ultima 4 Flash Version
According to a briefly visible revision to the Ultima 4 entry at the Codex of Editable Wisdom, Blair Leggett’s Flash-based port of Ultima 4 has had over distinct 14,000 players between May and September...
Games in the classroom?
[singlepic id=85 w=300 h=140 float=right]No, I’m not talking about playing The Secret of Monkey Island on your iPhone during another boring math lecture. I’m talking about games forming a part of a course curriculum…in...
Quoth Warren Spector: "I think that this is kind of a Golden Age…"
That Warren Spector…he just seems to be all over the gaming newsfeeds these days. Not that this is really a surprising trend; with Epic Mickey garnering as much attention as it has been, the...
